Largest rainforest countries form triple alliance for preservation

The three nations with the world’s largest rainforests, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia, formally launched on Monday (14) a partnership to cooperate in the preservation of forests after a decade of negotiations on a trilateral alliance.

Reuters reported in August that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), Brazil’s president-elect in late October, would seek to partner with the two other leading rainforest nations to pressure the rich world to fund forest conservation.

The rapid destruction of tropical forests, which through their dense vegetation serve as carbon sinks, releases carbon dioxide that warms the planet, putting global climate goals at risk. Reforesting previously cleared jungle has the benefit of removing greenhouse gases already present in the atmosphere.

Representatives of the three countries, which account for 52% of the world’s tropical forests, signed the joint declaration at negotiations in Indonesia ahead of the G20, the group of 20 industrialized countries, which begins this Tuesday (15).

“South-south cooperation – Brazil, Indonesia, DRC – is very natural”, said the Minister of the Environment of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eve Bazaiba, before the signing.

“We have the same challenges, the same opportunity to be the solution to climate change”.

In the agreement, the alliance said that the countries should be paid for reducing the logging and by maintaining forests as carbon sinks.

Countries will also work to negotiate “a new sustainable finance mechanism” to help developing countries preserve their biodiversity, as well as increase funding through the United Nations REDD+ program to reduce deforestation.

The G20 talks coincide with the second and final week of the United Nations COP27 climate summit in Egypt, where Lula’s environmental adviser, Izabella Teixeira, said Brazil will seek the involvement of other countries in the Amazon basin, which encompasses nine nations. .

“Forests matter, nature matters. And I believe that without protecting the Amazon we cannot have climate security,” said Izabella, who was Lula’s environment minister during his previous term, which ended in 2010.

“I believe that Brazil should encourage other countries to unite”.

Negotiations on the alliance to protect the rainforest have so far failed due to “institutional difficulties”, said Izabella.

The joint statement cited a meeting of the three countries at last year’s climate summit in Glasgow that injected momentum into the talks. They materialized in the last weeks of the right-wing presidency of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) before Lula took office on January 1st.

(Editing: William James and Barbara Lewis)

Source: CNN Brasil

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